Dublin City Council has entered negotiations with Nama over the purchase of land to accommodate up to 600 social and affordable homes at the Glass Bottle site in the capital’s docklands. The negotiations between Nama and the council were confirmed by DCC chief executive Owen Keegan at a meeting of the Oireachtas Housing Committee on Tuesday. However, Mr Keegan warned the housing committee that developing the social housing on the docklands site, which is a former landfill, was going to prove an expensive task. Sinn Féin housing spokesman Eoin Ó Broin welcomed the news, but warned that “huge challenges remain in the delivery of genuinely affordable rental and purchase housing”. A planning application is not expected on the St Michael’s estate, where hundreds of cost rental homes are planned, before the spring of 2020.

Source: The Irish Times June 18, 2019 18:10 UTC